indonesian-naruto:

honestly, and this is going to be my only post on the matter, the thing that upsets me the most about horse_ebooks not being a bot is that it’s some guy in new york

i wouldn’t mind it being a real person if it was an actual russian marketing guy with 50 twitter accounts copy pasting weird shit into twitter

It’s interesting how the recent installations of Saints Row and GTA both take the unevenness in tone (humor/gritty drama/playful murder) between and within previous installments and make it into a major plot theme.

It’s like the series’ dramatic approaches (satire for GTA, parody for SR) are starting to turn ouroboros on themselves

I root for the Republicans for the same reason I used to root for the Democrats: they’re the anti-law, anti-Christian party.

memejacker:

you start your ironic journey in ironically liking something when suddenly you hit a fork and have to choose between shedding the irony and unironically liking it or attempting to keep it up and piling more levels of sarcasm on its like a bioware rpg or something

dntdodrugs:

I’m sweating cause this dudes game shits on mine

Why couldn’t @horse_ebooks be left alone as a weird internet phenomenon? Because while it might not be run by a major corporation, it maintains the same ideology: that anything that attracts attention is too valuable to be left to its followers. It has to be turned into a tool for promotion, be that corporate promotion or the self-promotion of an artist.

Jacob Bakkila could have made his own Twitter account to post gibberish to. But the point was to appropriate something people were already paying attention to. What we thought was marketing rediscovered as art has turned out to be art rediscovered as marketing. The total victory of corporate media and social ownership as a way of looking at the world is that we can’t just like anything without it becoming part of a brand or a product, or without somebody taking it over to stick their name all over it. What’s disappointing is the confirmation that this is just the world we live in.

Robot Horse Blues | The Ingenious Gentleman Robot Horse Blues | Chris Whitman, Game Designer, Law Student and Dog About Town

Best piece about The Horse that I’ve read so far.

(via towerofsleep)

This made me very sad.

(via faithofthefaithless)

this is the first critical piece i’ve read that didn’t make me gag from pretension i love it

(via orangeapplesauce)

Motoring my way very slowly around Los Santos in a submersible turns my mind to the geography of LA.

LA has no natural harbor, the LA/Long Beach port is protected by artificial breakwaters. The natural seaport of the region is San Diego, and indeed SD used to be the power center of SoCal. LA was founded because the seasonal LA river allowed crops to be grown for the nearby missions, and this origin in a command economy meant it didn’t initially develop the market institutions that characterize regional capitals.

What really did it is that when the southern transcontinental railroad was planned it was originally supposed to have its western terminus in San Diego, but state legislators from SF, the Gold Rush-swollen power center of California, feared this would shift power south and redirected it to LA on the premise that such a desert hellscape could never grow into a rival.

The funny thing is that from this to the streetcars (built by land developers to increase the value of their holdings in distant suburbs like Hollywood, then abandoned as unscaleable and unprofitable) to the subways (planned to alleviate gridlock between the eastside and westside, then redirected up into the valley instead because riches vs. poors) to the green line (going from nowhere in particular almost to the airport as a sop to the black neighborhoods cut down for a freeway) to the proposed high speed rail lines (connecting SF and Vegas to like an hour out of town), the development of LA has been almost entirely driven by laying rails in the obviously wrong places.

fourwindsshotgun:

my political tendency mate? well, as my very nuanced & well-researched historiography demonstrates, I am from the “we have opposed everything bad & also always seen it coming” tendency, while people I do not like are from the “caused everything bad and also think everything bad is good” tendency.

nevver:

Waiting

milk-chiller2:

Fuck fucking beard government http:/ xbox wishes football youtube.com world_cup

kontextmaschine:

I believe in Taylor Swift

monetizeyourcat-blog:

i’m pretty sure the entire city is that members-only club Chuck Palahniuk talked about where you go and jerk off

cabinporn:

More floating cabins on the Albion River, California.

highmiranda:

yes

heatherm00ch:

blancadiabla:

safety tips from Anubis

oh my fucking god